by François-René de Chateaubriand · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782218727061
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«Mémoires d'outre-tombe, l'autobiographie» is Chateaubriand's autobiography, published by Hatier in paperback (159 pages, in French).
Posthumous autobiography in which Chateaubriand recalls his life and times: the court of Louis XVI, travels through America and the East, exile, the rise of Napoleon and the fall of the Restoration. The narrative combines historical chronicle with intimate reflection and the Romantic taste for memory and melancholy.
Edition from the Classiques & thèmes collection, with a grouping of texts on autobiography; the complete work was published in 1849.
Classroom edition for students studying the autobiographical genre and French literature in secondary school.
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who influenced French literature of the 19th century. Descended from an old aristocratic family from Brittany, Chateaubriand was a royalist by political disposition. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1822 to 1824 and as the French ambassador to Sweden, Prussia, the United Kingdom, and the Papal States.
